DMA (Direct Memory Access) is the equivalent of PIO. It reduces the CPU load by using a memory controller to perform data transfers directly from the host adapter to system memory. Historically single-word DMA was by-passed by multi-word DMA which was by-passed by ultra DMA UDMA.

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